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...ly interested in language features that relate to: o expressive power: ease of translating what you want to do into the results you want o elegance: how well does the code provide a simple human-readable description of what is done? o extensibility: ease of generalizing a method to wider scope o learnability: your learning curve (rate, asymptote) For R, some things to cite are (a) data and function objects, (b) object-oriented methods (S3 & S4); (c) function mapping over data with *apply methods and plyr. What other language features of R should be on this list? I would welcome suggestions (a...

...did download and install the 2.4.1 flavor (version?) of the gui. I infer, reading between the lines a bit, that there may be a sort of standard procedure for setting things up, perhaps downloading and installing the utils package, or something. The R software has much gold in it, but, as far as learnability/usability is concerned, I give it poor marks. Tom Jones DrJones at alum.MIT.edu

Anyone read the rough cuts of this book? I''m interested in checking it out because Bruce Tate''s work is always great. How does it compare to the agile books (2nd edition) in terms of timeliness, difficulty, etc. Thanks! Nathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi Jonah, I support usability. For a great book on it, read Jakob Nielsen''s "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity" and, for a great general book on usability, try "The Design of Everyday Things." You''re right. Drag ''n drop is not the best tool for many things. Unless something offers a 50%+ advantage over an existing method of doing

Hello! I am a student in a university department here in Greece, and we are developing a WebCast solution for our new radio station we have made. We work with Oddcast plugin for WinAMP, which connects to an IceCast_v2 server, which runs on a WinXP machine. I would like to ask for 2 major issues we face: -> Because we have some problems with the weather conditions here and sometimes the

Since I had my type development epiphany a couple of days ago, I''ve decided to write down my understanding of developing simple types, at http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PracticalTypes. I''d appreciate comments from people who already know how to develop types as to correctness, and also comments from people who are new to type development about whether it''s a